NEW PRIMATE FROM THE PALEOGENE OF THAILAND, AND THE BIOGEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN OF ANTHROPOIDS

Authors
DUCROCQ S JAEGER JJ CHAIMANEE Y SUTEETHORN V
Citation
S. Ducrocq et al., NEW PRIMATE FROM THE PALEOGENE OF THAILAND, AND THE BIOGEOGRAPHICAL ORIGIN OF ANTHROPOIDS, Journal of Human Evolution, 28(5), 1995, pp. 477-485
Citations number
33
Categorie Soggetti
Anthropology,"Biology Miscellaneous
Journal title
Journal of Human Evolution → ACNP
ISSN journal
00472484
Volume
28
Issue
5
Year of publication
1995
Pages
477 - 485
Database
ISI
SICI code
0047-2484(1995)28:5<477:NPFTPO>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
Recent field work in the Eocene Krabi Basin (south Thailand) has yield ed a fragment of a primate lower jaw containing the second and third m olar teeth attributed to a new genus and species, Wailekia orientale. The specimen described here is morphologically very close to Oligopith ecus savagei from the Fayum (Egypt), and the presence of Wailekia in t he Upper Eocene of Thailand suggests that South East Asia may be an im portant centre of origin for anthropoids.